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Reservoir Hill's Beth Connolly - Source: ONE News -
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TVNZ's first online only interactive drama, Reservoir Hill, has been nominated for an Emmy Award.
The interactive drama which played out online in weekly episodes last year on TVNZ Ondemand, is up for a Digital Emmy for programmes aimed at children or young people. It is up against shows from Hong Kong, Canada, Finland and the UK.
Reservoir Hill told the story of Beth Connolly who was uprooted from her home life in rural Ruakowhai, and forced to move to a strange new suburb when her parents separate. The new town turns out to hold plenty of secrets that Beth find herself in the middle of.
The online drama was a New Zealand first from David Stubbs and Thomas Robins from KHF Media, giving viewers the chance to interact with their lead character.
The weekly episodes posed the question of what Beth should do in certain situations and viewers could then text in their suggestions. The producers then took those suggestions on board for the following episode.
Weekly video blogs from Beth were also posted and viewers could interact with her through her Bebo page.
The winners for the Digital Emmy awards will be announced on
April 12.
Miss Reservoir Hill the first time round? You can't text
anymore but you can still
watch
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